Dr. Bart Jan Spruyt

Co-Founder and currently chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation. He studied history at the University of Utrecht and subsequently completed a PhD in Theology at the Divinity Faculty of Leiden University. Upon graduation, he took up a position at the news desk of the Reformatorisch Dagblad, eventually becoming that paper's chief political correspondent. In October 2002, he left the newspaper to become a director at the Edmund Burke Foundation. He has published widely in Dutch newspapers and magazines and is a regular commentator on Dutch radio and TV. He has edited a concise version of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, published by Kok Publishers (Kampen) in 2002. A collection of his essays on conservative political and intellectual history was published by Balans Publishers (Amsterdam) in May 2003.